There's a pretty decent size thread of interesting discussion beneath it, demonstrating that it is of value.
I don't understand why this comment was singled out
I don't moderate this site, but if I did I might be tempted to use a script to scrape for keywords and phrases that sound like violations of the guidelines and issue replies at a key press or automatically. And that's a good way to do it, except occasionally it causes... well... a shallow dismissal?
We do not scrape for keywords or phrases that sound like violations of the guidelines.
"Decent size" does not indicate value on HN. We want quality, not quantity. The responses that the root comment generated were mostly either generic (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995221) or outright flamewar crap.
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How is that a shallow dismissal? Pointing out a pattern is a shallow dismissal? A dismissal of what?
It was just generic without adding any information or insight. Moreover the generic point was dismissive. Hence, shallow dismissal.
I don't understand why this comment was singled out in particular, maybe it was edited.
But I do think this kind of low value and lazy opionionating should be discouraged.
There's a pretty decent size thread of interesting discussion beneath it, demonstrating that it is of value.
I don't moderate this site, but if I did I might be tempted to use a script to scrape for keywords and phrases that sound like violations of the guidelines and issue replies at a key press or automatically. And that's a good way to do it, except occasionally it causes... well... a shallow dismissal?
We do not scrape for keywords or phrases that sound like violations of the guidelines.
"Decent size" does not indicate value on HN. We want quality, not quantity. The responses that the root comment generated were mostly either generic (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995221) or outright flamewar crap.